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...three ways: by a state or county public defender's office, by court-appointed counsel or by contract public defenders who have put in a bid to handle many cases in one jurisdiction. Whatever the system, budget cuts, funding caps and an increase in the number of prosecutions for lesser crimes have created crushing case loads in most jurisdictions and fostered a type of assembly-line justice that often is not justice at all. In Atlanta 25 men line up together to plead guilty and receive their sentences, according to Stephen Bright, a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School...
...Antonio Melendez was arrested for attempted murder in Hidalgo County, Texas. Melendez remained in jail 1 1Ú2 years before the state brought him to trial. Then he was acquitted of attempted murder and convicted of a lesser charge, for which he was only sentenced to probation, meaning he should never have spent the 18 months in jail. He has since filed a lawsuit claiming his right to a speedy trial was denied, and the trial court found there were numerous other inmates in the county jail waiting long periods before trial, some even longer than Melendez...
...hour investigator to find witnesses. Other extras were simply too expensive. "With more money, we would have ordered a helicopter for an aerial view to show how he was cut off,'' Kaminsky says. "Juries love visual aids." In the end, Lampropoulos was found guilty of a lesser charge and probably avoided prison time. At one point, says Kaminsky, Lampropoulos' father asked, "If it turns out my boy didn't do anything wrong, I get all this money back, right...
...indictment came later.) Clinton Administration officials, wary of Cuban motives, today said they were interested in Vesco's extradition -- but not, as Havana has hinted, atthe price of warming U.S. relations with Cuba. Douglas Waller, TIME national security correspondent, says the State Department is under pressure to seek a lesser quid pro quo rather than lose such a high profile fugitive. Still, Waller adds: "The Vesco case is 23 years old, and he's not Michael Milken. He's an icon of a past generation of greed...
...Board of Overseers, Harvard's lesser governing board, kicked off its bi-monthly convention yesterday with the meeting of its Institutional Policy Committee at the Office of the Governing Boards in Loeb House...